News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events . . .
Recognise Platform Launch, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Art and the Market: Examining the Intersections between Museums, Philanthropy, Commerce and the Law, York
Egalitarian Digital Privacy: SICCL author meets readers, University of Sheffield and online
Oxford Centre: Annual Lecture 2023, Wolfson College, Oxford
VSR Yearly Conference 2023: The next generation, Amsterdam: call for papers and panels
Tax Research Network Conference 2023, University of Cambridge: call for papers
SLSA events and co-sponsored events
SLSA 2023 University of Ulster: online registration; accommodation and travel: registration closes on 24 March at noon
Prevent, Surveil and Protect: The fight against terrorism, online one-day symposium
Fantasy Legal Exhibitions, London: call for participants
Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law is hosting a author meets readers event2023
March
Prevent, Surveil and Protect: The fight against terrorism
Date: 27 March 2023
Venue: online via Teams from University of Sunderland
See announcement for details and website for registration. This event is supported through funding from the SLSA Seminar Competition.
AHTV: Exploring research in television
Date: 28 March 2023
Venue: Conway Hall, London, and online
Speaker: Janina Ramirez
See website for details.
Towards Autonomous Borders? Assessing the Human Rights and Rule of Law Challenges of the Deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems for Migration Management
Date: 29 March 2023
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, tbc
See website for details.
Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023
Dates: 29–31 March 2023
Venue: Sheffield
Theme: 'From the Floorboards Up: Foundations and Futures of Housing Justice'
See website for details.
April
British Institute of International and Comparative Law: short courses programme 2023
Dates: spring and autumn 2023
Venue: Russell Square, London, and online
See website for details.
International Institute for the Sociology of Law: Workshop Programme 2023
Dates: April—May 2023
Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain
See website for details for details of this year’s extensive programme or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Director's Seminar Series: Current attitudes towards international law in Russia
Date: 3 April 2023
Venue: onIine from IALS
Speaker: Professor Tim Potier
See website for details.
SLSA Annual Conference 2023
Dates: 6–9 April 2023
Venue: University of Ulster, Derry-Londonderry
Further coming soon.
A Century after Pan-African Congress, London: Pan-Africanism and the Making of Black Inter-national Constitution(s)
Date: 11 April 2023
Venue: tbc
Speaker: Professor Tshepo Madlingozi, Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and an Associate Professor at the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersran.
This is the QMUL Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context's 2023 Annual Lecture. See website for details.
Law and Justice – A vexed relationship
Date: 12 April 2023
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road
Speaker: Raju Bhatt, founding partner, Bhatt Murphy
See website for details of this free event.
Book discussion: Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts by Mayur Suresh
Date: 13 April 2023
Venue: online from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Jointly organised by Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, SOAS and Centre for Law and Humanities, OP Jindal Global University. See announcment for details.
Recognise Platform Launch
Date: 13 April 2023
Venue: Maastricht University, Netherlands
See website for details of this free in-person event.
Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2023
Dates: 17–18 April 2023
Venue: University of Westminster, London
See website for details..
Reproductive Justice in a Post-Covid World: Transnational Protest and Resistance
Dates: 18–19 April 2023
Venue: University of Cambridge
See website for details. This event is part of the British Academy conferences programme.
Public Law and the EU
Date: 24 April 2023
Venue: Allen and Overy, One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD
Organised by the Public Law Project, in partnership with Allen and Overy and Monckton Chambers. See website for details.
Book Launch: Conscientious Objection in Turkey - A Socio-legal Analysis of the Right to Refuse Military Service
Date: 26 April 2023
Venue: Durham Law School and online
Author: Dr Demet Asli Caltekin
See website for details.
Beyond Brexit: The future of UK Trade Policy
Date: 27 April 2023
Venue: Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House, Great Smith Street, London
See website for details of this University of Sussex event..
May
Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference titled: Law & Prejudice
Dates: 4–5 May 2023
Venue: Hybrid/Montreal, Canada
See announcement for details.
International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)
Dates: 4–6 May 2023
Venue: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
See website for details.
Student Legal Theory Conference
Date: 5 May 2023
Venue: Zagreb, Croatia
See website for details.
Egalitarian Digital Privacy: SICCL author meets readers
Date: 10 May 2023
Venue: University of Sheffield and online
Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law iauthor-meets-readers event with Professor Tsachi Keren-Paz. See website for details.
Plural Visions of Law – The legacy of Joseph Raz, York
Date: 11 May 2023
Venue: University of York
See announcement for details.
In Conversation with Lord Pannick KC and Joshua Rozenberg KC
Date: 11 May 2023
Venue: New Academic Building, LSE, London
See website for details of this Support Through Court event.
Art and the Market: Examining the Intersections between Museums, Philanthropy, Commerce and the Law
Dates: 11–12 May 2023
Venue: The Guildhall, York
See website for details of this free British Academy/University of York event.
Association for Law, Property, & Society Annual Meeting
Dates: 11–13 May 2023
Venue: University of Southampton
See announcement for details.
Evidentiary Regimes of UN Treaty Bodies: Perspectives from research and practice
Dates: 15–16 May 2023
Venue: Ghent, Belgium
See website for details. This event is organised by the DISSECT HORIZON 2020 research project.
Inclusive Sussex: In Conversation event, featuring Professor Tom Shakespeare CBE FBA
Date: 17 May 2023
Venue: University of Sussex
See website for details.
Reimagining Public Law
Date: 23 May 2023
Venue: Centre for Employability, Professional Legal Education and Research, Birmingham Law School
See announcement for details.
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
See announcement for full details.
Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Animal Law
Dates: 25–26 May 2023
Venue: online from Kent Law School and international partners
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop
Date: 31 May 2023
Venue: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Applications are invited for this workshop convening immediately preceding the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. See website for details.
June
LSA Annual Meeting 2023
Dates: 1–4 June 2023
Venue: Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico
See website for details.
The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights RESCHEDULED
Date: 12 June 2023
Venue: Moot Court, University of Sheffield School of Law, and online
Author meets Reader event at the Centre for Criminological Research with Dr Amanda Spalding. See website for details.
Oxford Centre: Annual Lecture 2023, Wolfson College
Date: 13 June 2023
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford, 5pm–6.30pm
Theme: Possession Island: Queering Art, Queering Law
Guest Speaker: Professor Des Manderson, ANU College of Law & College of Arts and Social Sciences
All welcome, but booking is necessary. Drinks will be served afterwards. See website for details.
One-day Symposium on Sexuality, Nationality and Asylum: The New Plan for Immigration – call for papers
Date: 14 June 2023
Venue: Oxford Brookes University
Organisers: Dr Alex Powell, Lecturer in Law, Oxford Brookes University with the support of The Fundamental Rights and Equality Research Group, the Critical Legal Perspectives on Law, Society, Gender and Diversity research Group, and the Migration and Refugees Research Network, all at Oxford Brookes University. See announcement for details. Call closes: 31 March 2023. If you have any questions, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
ISA World Congress of Sociology: Session on Transnational Queer Politics and Human Rights
Dates: 25 June–1 July 2023
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
See website for details.
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference
Dates: 27–30 June 2023
Venue: Oxford Brookes University
See website for details.
9th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference
Dates: 28–29 June 2023
Venue: Denver, Colorado, USA
See website for details. There is a rolling deadline for the call for posters.
WG Hart Workshop 2023: Theorists in company law
Dates: 29–30 June 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See website for details.
July
Sixth Tax Policy Conference
Dates: 3–4 July 2023
Venue: Centre for Tax Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
See website for details.
International Conference 'Combating Gender-based Violence': call for panellists
Dates: 3–6 July 2023
Venue: Lille University, France
See announcement for Panel 1 and Panel 2 for details. Closing date: 15 April 2023.
VSR Yearly Conference 2023: The next generation: call for papers and panels
Date: 6–7 July 2023
Venue: University of Amsterdam
See website and announcement for details. Call closes: 1 May 2023. Please send panel proposals before the deadline.
Authoritarianism and Genocide: Narratives of exclusion
Dates: 10–14 July 2023
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
This is the 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. See website for details.
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2023
Date: 14 July 2023
Venue: online and University of Verona
See announcement for details.
Fantasy Legal Exhibitions: call for participants
Dates: 18–19 July 2023
Venues: British Museum, Postal Museum, Middle Temple and IALS, London
See announcement for details. Closing date: 28 April 2023. This event is supported throught the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Ninth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling
Dates: 26–28 July 2023
Venue: City Law School, University of London
See announcement for details.
August
Institute for Peace & Dialogue: 13th Summer Academy – call for participants
Dates: 7–21 August 2023
Venue: Basel, Switzerland
See website for detalis. Early bird applications: 5 May 2023; late applications: 30 June 2023.
RCSL Annual Meeting: Law, society and digital pasts, presents and futures
Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023
Venue: Lund, Sweden
Organised by the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University. See website and poster for details.
Working Group on the Sociology of Constitutions, RCSL Annual Meeting
Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023
Venue: Lund, Sweden
See announcement for details.
September
Celebrating Women in Legal History: The lives and legacies of early women legal historians: call for abstracts
Date: 1 September 2023
Venue: University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice
See attachment for details. Closing date for submissions: 21 April 2023.
Tax Research Network Conference 2023: call for papers
Venue: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
See website for details. Call closes: 16 April 2023.
International Creative Research Methods Conference
Dates: 11–12 September 2023
Venue: Manchester and online
See announcement for details.
Pregnancy and the Law: call for papers
Date: 13 September 2023
Venue: Law School, University of Southampton and online
See announcement for details. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 1 June 2023.
IVR Japan International Conference 2023: call for papers
Date: 16–18 September 2023
Venue: Chiba University, Japan
See website for details. Call closes: 30 April 2023.
2023 COI congress: Just institutional approaches to conflict prevention and resolution: call for papers
Dates: 28–29 September 2023
Venue: Utrecht University
See website for details. Call closes: 24 March 2023.
October
SAFI Conference on Punishment: call for abstracts
Dates: 5–7 October 2023
Venue: Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
See website for details. Closing date: 31 March 2023.
International Access to Justice Forum 2023: call for papers
Dates: 11–13 October 2023
Venue: University of California Irvine
Hosted by UCI Law’s Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice and the Victoria Law Foundation. See announcement for details. Closing date: 31 May 2023.
November
AHRC Being Human Festival 2023: call for applications
Dates: 9–18 November 2023
Venues: UK-wide
See website for details. Closing dates vary. There is also an 'Applying to Being Human' webinar for interested parties on 29 March 2023.
2024
IVR World Congress 2024
Date: tbc
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy
See announcement. Further details will be published in due course.